I have made a comparison of ........ (my design) with several Classé preamps, CP-65 for example. The sound of Classé was considerably less clean and had a taste of "synthetical" sound, even though their declared parameters are perfect. Power amps were Classé CAM-350 monoblocks and Wilson Audio Maxx speaker, also Wilson Sophia. The preamp mostly estimates resulting sound.

Originally posted by peranders
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You thought right!

Per, on the schematic (Boy, what a schematic! There's probably enough parts in there for a 6-channel THX amp. But I like it, nicely symmetric and elegant. Sometimes diagrams have their own beauty aside from their utility), the left-up transistor, I think it is T11, with the collector connected to the input, is that correct? Or is it supposed to go to gnd?